Meet Our Clergy
Rabbi Dan Levin serves as the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El, the congregation where he began his career in 1996. As the congregation’s leader, Rabbi Levin works to create a community where each member is inspired to lead a life of spiritual richness, meaning, purpose, and service. He seeks to build a congregation whose mission is to synthesize the innate questions and moral challenges of the world in which we live with the wisdom and power of centuries of Jewish tradition. It is this synthesis of tradition and the modern world that guides his teaching, worship, and pastoral care. Rabbi Levin believes that God is found in the intimacy of relationship, and seeks to build in the congregation a web of care, love, and oneness with each other, the community in which we live, and with the Jewish people here, in Israel, and throughout the world.
Rabbi Levin is a past president of SEACCAR, the southeast region ofthe Central Conference of American Rabbis, and serves on the Budget and Finance committee of the CCAR. He is proud to be a member of the President’s Rabbinical Council of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and serves on the Alumni Leadership Council. Previously, he served as a member of the Reform Movement’s Think Tank, a group seeking to create a visioning process for the future of Reform Judaism, and as a partner in the Kalsman Institute for Judaism and Health. He has mentored younger colleagues through the CCAR, The Wexner Foundation, and the CLI Fellows program of CLAL – the Center forLearning and Leadership.
Locally, he has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, as aboard member of Ruth and Norman Rales Jewish Family Services, the American Jewish Committee, and the Mathew Forbes Romer Foundation. He was a featured writer for the Union for Reform Judaism’s Ten Minutes ofTorah, and blogs at www.rabbidanlevin.com.
Rabbi Levin is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow with the Shalom Hartman Institute. A recipient of the prestigious Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Rabbi Levin studied at the Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York campuses of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and was ordained in May, 1996. He graduated from Colgate University with a degree in Philosophy and Religion in 1991, and also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He and his wife Aimee are the parents of three children, Ari, Meredith, and Eliana.
Rabbi Dan Levin
Rabbi Greg Weisman
Rabbi Greg Weisman joined Temple Beth El in 2013 after receiving his Rabbinic Ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles.
Since his arrival, Rabbi Weisman has developed connections and programs across the congregation, bringing a renewed passion for Jewish life and community. He has created deep connections with many groups within the congregation, in particular the congregation’s Young Adults and Young Families, Early Learning Center families, and the Temple Beth El Brotherhood. Rabbi Weisman worked with the temple’s Social Action Committee to create a Mitzvah of the Month program and to develop a Sacred Aging program, focusing on creating spiritual awareness throughout life’s journey. Rabbi Weisman currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Palm Beach County Board of Rabbis and on the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Palm Beach regional board.
As an accomplished educator, Rabbi Weisman has brought his educational background into a variety of classes and learning opportunities, including the temple’s bar and bat mitzvah program, high school education programs, adult learning opportunities, and the Introduction to Judaism program, which includes guiding students through the process of converting to Judaism.
Before coming to Temple Beth El, Rabbi Weisman served Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood and Congregation Havurim in Temecula, California as their rabbinic intern. In addition to rabbinic ordination, he also earned a Master’s of Jewish Education from HUC-JIR, serving Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas, CA as the coordinator of the Mishpacha Family Education program. While in rabbinical school he worked as a chaplain intern at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, was a teaching assistant at the Louchheim School of Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California and a group leader for NFTY in Israel. Rabbi Weisman was also repeatedly recognized by the faculty of HUC-JIR, who awarded him various academic prizes.
Before entering rabbinical school, Rabbi Weisman served as an Education Fellow at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi, working with congregations across the South to develop their educational programming. A native of Chicago, he is an avid sports fan and ice hockey player. His wife Tami is a southern Californian and Jewish educator. They met during their first year of school at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem, where he was beginning his rabbinic studies and she her Master’s in Jewish education studies. Together they enjoy concerts and sporting events, wine tasting, walking their dog and most importantly, their young daughters Claire, Daphne and Layla.
A talented teacher and an innovative leader, Rabbi Haas brings to Temple Beth El a passion for Jewish life and a broad range of rabbinic experience. Ordained by the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 2011, Rabbi Haas spent the first seven years of her career as the Associate Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama. During her tenure there, Rabbi Haas built a robust adult-education program, established an innovative process for engaging new members, and leveraged her creativity in Temple programming and strategic planning. In addition, she founded “The Discovery School” – Temple Emanu-El’s preschool which grew to more than 90 students in just its second year. She also helped to develop and implement an innovative curriculum for their religious school.
Since 2018, Rabbi Haas has served as Director of Adult Learning and Growth for the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education in Miami. There she created a new strategic vision for adult learning and growth for the entire Miami Jewish community, helping to grow attendance by more than 20 percent each year. She led her agency’s response to the COVID pandemic, quickly pivoting to provide learning and engagement opportunities online, providing a vital lifeline to hundreds of people suffering from loneliness.
A native of Miami Beach, Rabbi Haas graduated from the University of Miami, and also earned a Masters of Educational Administration from Xavier University.
Rabbi Laila Haas
Rabbi Elana Rabishaw
Rabbi Elana completed her studies at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles in 2022, and most recently worked as a Rabbinic Intern at Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood, CA. Rabbi Elana has worked at numerous synagogues throughout greater Los Angeles and as a student rabbi in Yakima, Washington. She also spent a summer working as a Chaplain Intern at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Rabbi Elana spent every summer at URJ camp OSRUI in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin beginning in fifth grade. She loved summers in Wisconsin so much that she attended the University of Wisconsin- Madison (Go Badgers!), where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Modern Hebrew. She earned her Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters from HUC-JIR in 2019, and a second Master’s in Jewish Education in 2020.
Cantor Lori Brock has been a member of Temple Beth El’s congregation since 1991. Prior to becoming our Cantor, she served as Cantorial Soloist beginning in 1997. Cantor Brock is passionate about vibrant and spiritual Jewish music and has worked to transform Temple Beth El’s music program and worship. She created Shir Ruach, Temple Beth El’s teen song-leader program and is the force behind our innovative Shabbat experiences like “Chanukah Under the Stars” at Mizner Park. In addition to producing Temple Beth El’s extraordinary concert and musical programs, Lori also has introduced a new curriculum for our religious school’s Kehillah worship workshop.
Cantor Brock is a graduate of the Cantorial Certification Program at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she earned the title of Cantor in 2016. She is a member of the American Conference of Cantors and has led services at their national convention. Cantor Brock has also presented on Visual Tefilah at the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial convention, and has served on the faculty of URJ Kutz Teen Leadership Camp and URJ Camp Coleman.
Prior to her work at Temple Beth El, Cantor Brock enjoyed a successful career in theater, film and commercials and is a member of Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild. She is married to her husband George and is the proud mother of Lizzie and Adam.
Cantor Lori Brock
Cantorial Soloist
Michelle Auslander Cohen
Cantorial Soloist Michelle Auslander Cohen is a native of Skokie, Illinois. She spent the majority of her childhood in a Jewish Day School, surrounded by her cousin and mother who were the premiere Jewish music educators in the Chicagoland area, and remain so to this day.
Michelle spent 14 years becoming proficient in piano, and by the beginning of high school, devoted herself to the art of singing. She pursued an operatic career, attending prestigious vocal programs such as the Peabody Conservatory, Indiana University and the Sarasota and Cincinnati Young Artist Programs. Michelle has earned esteemed awards including Fellowship Artist to the Brevard Music Center and an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera Association.
Here at Temple Beth El, Michelle has designed the music program for the Early Learning Center, and conducts Tot Shabbat. Michelle directs Shir Shalom, our adult volunteer choir, as well as Shir Joy, our youth choir, as they lead our regular Shabbat Family Participation Services. Michelle also works to engage adults with their musical talents, to participate in services or other Temple events.
Recently, Michelle has taught workshops in vocal technique and modern liturgical music at the North American Jewish Choral Festival: the premiere Jewish choral event which brings together singers and choirs from across North America and beyond. She was also recently chosen to lead services in front of 200 other cantors and musicians at the annual American Conference of Cantors-Guild of Temple Musicians conference.
In addition to her devotion to Temple work, she also serves as the coordinator of the Music and T’fillah programs at Donna Klein Jewish Academy, as well as the Musical Conductor for Hazamir Boca, the International Jewish High School Choral Foundation.
Michelle lives happily in Boca Raton, with her husband and two beautiful children, Eliana and Liora.
Cantor Jake Harris grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts before settling in Boca Raton at Temple Beth El. Growing up, Jake took guitar lessons at the local music store and learned music through mimicking classic rock albums, however, his early years were subconsciously influenced by the cantorial music he heard in the temple. Later, Jake attended the Longy School of Music of Bard College where he studied voice, piano, and composition.
In the summer of 2022, Cantor Jake began the Cantorial Intern Program of the Cantors Assembly which was created in order to give working spiritual leaders the tools and education to be able to formally serve the Jewish people with the full investiture and title of Cantor. On February 9, 2024 after passing all of the required examinations, Cantor Jake was granted full membership into the Cantors Assembly, thereby completing his journey to become a Cantor.
Cantor Jake serves communities with a yearning to bring people together with the divine power of music. His journey to spiritually rooted musical engagement has been influenced by his great-great-great-great uncle, Louis Lewandowski. Jake hopes that the music he creates will be an accessory for one’s personal path to spiritual enlightenment. Outside of the temple, Cantor Jake enjoys cooking, playing the piano, and writing music. He currently lives in Lake Worth with his fiancée, Cantor Rachel Slusky.
